English

rewet

From re- + wet.

Formed from re- + wet

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’

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Proto-West Germanic *wātijan ‘to wet’

Old English wǣtan ‘to wet’

Middle English weten ‘to wet’

Middle English wet ‘wet’

English wet

Today it means

verb To wet again.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.